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Wouldn't a surge protector be a better idea???
UPS maybe?

Just kidding, man. I've got a fairly expensive Netgear VPN router, and for the first year, the firmware sucked. It required power-cycling every day. I seriously thought about putting it on a mechanical lamp timer.

I actually did that once with an old Dlink dial-up router that we used at work. I got sick of resetting it at least once or twice every week so I used a timer to switch off an on again early in the morning. It saved me a lot of headaches, especially as the router was in a different building.

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UPS only last so long. I'm just glad I was home when it happened.

I've seen them go bad and start spontaneously powering off the server. Click, Clunk, "AMI Award Bios...."
One was here at my house, the other was running a package sorter at the Kodak distribution center.

A friend of mine had an APC UPS on his home computer. He was using it one day when smoke started pouring out of it and it caught fire! I have a healthy fear/respect for those things.

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If you work around enough electrical equipment for long enough you'll see _ALL_ of it catch fire at some point, but after many, many years I still haven't see a UPS catch fire. Computers, printers, monitors, wall warts and power bricks, radios, amplifiers, fans, toasters, dishwashers, power company transformers, ... and so on ad naseum, but no UPS _yet_. They're pretty low risk unless you very seriously abuse them. (Memory tells me that APC gets the top UL ranking and fire is one of the biggest things they test for.)

BTW - As a matter of personal experience while living in Maryland I had multiple APC surge suppressors and one UPS give their all to protect the equipment behind them when they took the brunt of a lightening strike on the power lines. On one occasion the closest power pole transformer went up in flames as a result of the lightening, but the UPS didn't even smoke.

Yeah, the next week he got a recall notice from APC regarding his UPS. I guess his wasn't the only one to self-immolate.

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Hi,

Seems to be a bad time for ups... I just had one at work that RY4 went bad and would not charge the battery.

And just before that my unit at home had one of it's batterys go bad after only a year, oozed stuff all over the place.

Mike

Yeah, I lost one of my UPS's lately too!